Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-02-03
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

square uiiincr Pintes Rho" Ia A~'S
Billiard cloth is an excellent founda-
ton for lambrequin.
Egg stains can be removed by rub
bing with common table salt.
Squares Of gold lace are an extremely
pretty addition to plush chair.
A novel card receiver is porcelain
pug dog. holding in his mouth brass
umbrella.
Small thermometers attached to brass
toboggans are among the popular Cd
idities.
An inkstand in perfect imitation Of
silver fox, with head of richly chased
silver. is novelty.
Square lanterns perforated and adorn-
ed with large opals and agates OF vari-
Gus colors. lind universal favor.
Spots of grease may be effectually
removed from the most delicate fabric
by the appl cation of dry buckwheat
flour.
A mixture of water and little COM
mon soda is said to possess rare effica-
cy in cleansing old painted surfaces for
repainting.
Sprays of grass may be beautifully
frosted by dipping them in solution
of gum arabic and sprinkling them
with powdered glass.
To Fry Hog Brans-Wash them in
cold water. roll them in flour and fry
in hot lard until well Drowned. While
frying sprinkle with lpepper and salt;
serve hot
Sweet Apple Pickels-Take four
pounds of firm sweet apples. Make a
syrup of four pounds OF sugar and one
Boil the apples in the syrup until tend
er.
Choice Fig Cake-A large cup OF
butter, two and u half of sugar, one OF
sweet milk. three pints flour with three
teaspoons baking powder. whites OF
sixteen eggs, pound and quarter OF
figs well Toured and cut I'M strips Ike
citron; no favorng.
If new broom be immersed in boil
! ing water until it is quite cold, and
/ then thoroughly dried in the air, it will
be far more pleasant to use and will
last much longer. Frequent moisten-
! ing of the broom is conducive to its
usefulness and also 10 the carpets.
Breakfast Drop Cake-A cup and q
half of buttermilk, half cup of sour
cream, an even teaspoon of saleratus,
one teaspoon of salt and four cups oil
flour; mix well. drop in small table
spoonsfuls an inch apart in we'll
CREASED dripping pan and bake quick
ly. They will be rough when done.
Pretty and useful mats may be made
of white enameled cloth, or oil.cloth.
cut in sizes or shapes TO suit the fancy.
Punch small holes an eighth of an inch
from the edge. and the sarne distance
apart Into these crochet a. border Of
colored split zephyr using white knit
ting cotton of suitable size for the out
err scallop, which should be edged with
worsted.
Potato Croquettes. Two cups o
smoothly mashed potatoes, one egg
beaten light, half cup of milk, ont
teaspoonful of butter pepper and salt
beat all together until light. stir in
saucepan until hot and stifleD ed. Turf
out upon fiat dish to get cold. Form
into croquettes. roll in beaten egg, thel
in fine crumbs and fry in hot dripping
Drain from the fat in split spoon anC
arrange on a hot platter.
German Coffee Cakes-Beat togethe
two cups of sugar and one of butter
beat separately the whites and yolks o
six eggs; mix well together with tw
large cups of dough- first the sugar an
butter. next the yolks. then the white
of the eggs; add one teaspoon each {
extract of cinnamon. allspice and nu
meg. half pound of seeded raisins. an
little more flour; let rise. make
small cakes keep warm twenty minute
and bake.
1t may not be generally known ths
cold food is more easily kept on a SCI
sative stomach than hot; so in cast
where it is rejected in the ord mar
warm or hot form, it had better
tried as nearly frozen as can be takeI
In many fevers this would be decide
advantage. The prejudice against col
food is, perhaps. mai .ural, but we carr
it too far. Milk ma be administers
in frozen state. off en- with positive a.
vantage.
How to Cook CranberrTes-Was
one quart of Gran be rries and put the
into covered saucepan with one phi
of water. Let them simmer until eat
cranberry bursts open; remove Il
cover and add one pound OF sugar, al
let them all boil for twenty minut
without the cover The cranberri
must never be stirred from the tin
they are placed on the fire. Folio
this recipe exactly, and you will ha
a most delicious preparation OF era
berries.
Scalloped Goldfish With Cheese
Soak pound of sailed Goldfish
hours in tcptl water; then boil it. WIZ
cold. pick it into flakes with fork ~
; season with pepper. Heat a cup
milk to DO ii, stir into 1t tablespoc
full of hot butter stirred with two
-four; mix with the picked fish and po
into BAKE, dish. Strew grated chez
thickly on top and bake in quiz
oven to del cate brown. 1t is y
nicer IL " on add n raw egg to the mi
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